Shoe



SHOE

Filed Aug. 24, 1926 Patented Aug. 21, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM RODERICK BARCLAY, OF LEICESTER, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR T UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CORPORATION, OF'PATERSON, NEW JERSEY,

JERSEY.

A CORPORATION OF N SHOE.

Application flledAugust 24; 1828, Serial 110. 131,284, and in Great Britain September 1, 1925.

of mens shoes, for example, are made of leather or leatherboard and any cushioning actionthat is desired is obtained by the attachment of rubber treads. Sometimes a whole cushion heel is employed, and the pat- 1 ent to Cooke No. 1,530,301, granted March 17,1925, discloses such a whole cushion heel in which the weight has been reduced and attachment by customary methods, facilitated by the use of a plywood, core. The present 1 invention is, in one aspect, particularly a plicable to heels of the type disclosed int c said patent, although certain features of the invention are capable of adaptation to other 1 t es of whole heels. a

hoes having whole cushion heels have disadvantage in that it is diflicult, if not impossible, so to finish the heel portion of the shoethat a contrast in color or polish is not apparent where the yielding material of the rear and side surfaces of the-heel meets the edge of the outsole on the heel-seat of the shoe. It is an object of the present invention to overcome this difficulty without affecting disadvantageously the structure of the shoe or. unduly adding to the cost of its manufacture.

With the described object in view an unportant feature of the inventlon consists m a shoe to which is attached a cushion heel the yielding material of which extends from the tread of the heel to the shoe upper, around the side and back of the heel, except at the breast end of the heel, and conceals the adjacent margin of the heel-seat portion of the sole.

In the illustrated embodiment of the invention the .marginal portion of the heelseat end of the outsole is cut away from a point near one breast cornerof the heel to a point near the other breast corner, leavmg a margin of the shoe upper exposed on the shoe bottom. The heel is provided on its attachin face with a marginal rim integral with tEe yielding material of the cushioning 5; so that the visible edge of the attached par- \ The various objects and features of the inbody portion of the heel and adapted to conheel, from the tread thereof to the shoe upper, consists of a single material which may easily'be finished to give a uniform appearance.

vention will be best understood and appreciated from the'following description in connection with the accompanying drawings of one form of shoe and heel illustrative of the invention the scope of which in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Fig. 1 is a top plan view of one form of heel constructed in accordance with the invention; r

Fig. 2 is a top'plan view of a modified form of heel;

Fig. 31s a cross-section of the heel shown in Fig. 1;.and Y Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the heel end of a shoe with the heel attached thereto.

Referring now to the drawings, the illustrative heel 1 may be assumed to be one of the type disclosed in the above-mentioned patent but instead of the rubber that surrounds the core atthe sides 3, 5 and the rear 7 of the heel terminating at about the level of the upper surface of the core 9, the rubber is continued upward to form a rim 11 extending well above the core. This results in the formation of a hollow 13 to receive the rear end of the outsole 15 and conceal its marginal edge which, from points adjacent to the breast corners of the heel, may be beveled to correspond to the bevel of the rim 11'. As illustrated, the rim 11 has an upper surface of substantial width adapted to contact with and make atight joint with the adjacent surface of the shoe upper. This builtup and flexible portion or rim 11, as shown, overlaps the core 9 as at 17 so as to assist in bonding the rubber cover to the core but may terminate near the margin of the core to leave the central portion of the latter exposed or covered wlth a mere skim of rubber 19, Fig. 3. The upper surface of-the heel may, in the result, he a smoothly curved hollow or the curvature of the hollow may be broken near its margin as at 21 where the inner surface of this built-up portion rises comparatively steeply.

The hollow 13 may be partially filled in with rubber, as shown at 23 in Fig. 1, by an inward extension of the rim 11 in order to permit shortening of the outsole to save the willbe defined 65 i comparatively expensive sole leather, or it may extend rearwardly, as shown in Fig. 2. The rim 11 of the heel may cease, as illustrated at 27, just short of the breast edge of the heel, in which case the sole will extend at those points to fit into the angle between the surface of the heel and the rim 11; thus the sole will be prevented by the heel from sagging at the edges as it might do if the rim 11 extended to the heel breast and the edges of the sole were therefore left unsupported.

The shoe may be prepared for the reception of the heel by cutting away the marginal portion of the heel-seat of the outsole from a point near one breast corner to a point near the other so as to leave a horseshoe or other margin of up er exposed on the shoe bottom, the heel being then attached from the outside or from the inside by nails or other fastenings which penetrate through or into the core 9 and also penetrate both the outsole and the insole.

The result is that around the heel end of the sole the rim 11 embraces more or less closely the up er of the shoe and conceals the sole edge rom a point near one breast corner to a point near the other. The comparative resilience of the rim 11 permits the securing of a snug fit of the heel to the upper of the shoe by deformation of the yielding rim during the heel-attaching operation without detriment to those conjoint qualities of resilience in use with stability in attachment and wear which characterize the cored ty e of heel.

he built-up portion 11 may be formed in one molding operation with the heel as a whole or may be united to the heel or built up on it after the heel has been formed and may or ma not be of the same com osition as the resihent covering or body of t e heel. In some instances a difl'erence of flexibility may be obtained by a difference of composition but manifestly it will be preferable to retain a sufiieient similarity in nature to insure the whole of the rear and side walls of the heel behaving similarly under finishing treatment.

The attaching nails or other fastenings will preferably, as usual, penetrate the heel a close to its margin as practicable and may therefore pass just inside the overlap 17 or, I

where that extends inwardly to a sufiicient extent, may pass through it.

The heel may have its built-up portion 11 ornamented by moldin or otherwise. For example, it may be finis ed with a seat beading 29 such as would have been ap lied to the edge of the sole of the shoe to which the heel was attached had the margin of the sole not been trimmed away.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A shoe having an n per, an outsole and a cushion heel of yiel ing material, said yielding material concealing the edge of the heel-seat end of the sole exce t at the breast end of the heel, where the entire width of the sole overlaps the heel for a short distance.

2. A cushion heel comprising a core and a covering of rubber encasin the sides and bottom of the core, said ru ber extending upward above the top surface of the core to form a sole end receiving hollow extending from the breast of the heel rearwardly for a distance substantially less than the length of the heel.

3. A cushion heel comprising a core and a covering of rubber encasing the sides and bottom of the core, said rubber extending above the to surface of the core to form a rim of the tliickness of a shoe sole overlapping the edge of the core, the top surface of the core belng exposed inside of the overlap ing rim and the rim and exposed surface of t e core forming a sole end receiving 1101- low.

In testimony whereof I have signed my 9 ecification.

ODERICK BARCLAY.

name to this WILLIAM 

